by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
What are we to make of an academic conference in Canadathe most anti-raw-milk country on the planet that actually included serious and open discussion from a wide range of attendees about the benefits of raw milk and ways to make it legal? Im not sure....
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2014 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
One of the things that always amazes me about the raw milk controversy is how public health and medical professionals come to definitive conclusions with little or no research basis. A classic example involves the recent flap over whether raw milk helps...
by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
Take me to your leader. I couldnt help thinking of that cliche from old cowboy-Indian-style movies, as I listened to a recent podcast by two professors of food safety discussing raw milk (this is the podcast Joseph Heckman originally provided a link to;...
by David Gumpert | Oct 9, 2013 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research |
Theres an outbreak of illnesses from salmonella in chicken that is making national headlines–278 people in 18 states have been sickened. More alarming is the fact that 42% of those sickened have been hospitalized, and that the pathogen seems resistant to...
by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
It is encouraging to learn from Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. about the growing acceptance among scientific researchers in California of raw milk (per his comments following my previous post). I have written in the past about the open-mindedness of...
by David Gumpert | Jun 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had no hesitancy about spending taxpayer dollars to promote its viewpoint that raw milk is a mortal danger. A couple years back, I called the FDA on its practice, after it spent nearly $2,500 with a press release...
by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Research |
There appears to be a little hangup in all the good news about poop helping cure intestinal infections. You see, when you discover that something, anything, acts as a cure for disease, well, that something becomes, in the parlance of the U.S. Food and Drug...
by David Gumpert | Jan 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research, Resistance |
A year ago I summarized the key themes for 2011 as “rising shock events” and “rising stress levels,” thanks to highly public raids on food clubs and farms.Id say 2012 was the year these shock events played out in a number of ways, primarily...
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